Hola todos
I'm on the national express coach back to London as I write this with my flight back to seville tomorrow and a presentation I have hardly worked on the day after that.
I just had a few days in Exeter, my uni town. Once I realised that from tomorrow I'm not going to be back in the UK until late July /August and that I hadn't been to Exeter since the summer I decided to return. Once there I realised I'm so glad I did. Some uni students away from home will know, your university town is where you can be free and do what you want. Add to this that unlike some students I often stayed in the holiday breaks and worked in Exeter I am very fond of Exeter. I know people living and working in Exeter now who I saw over these days and I'm jealous they have this city to call home.
I was frequently asked 2 questions over my Christmas break in the UK. The classic 'so what are you ACTUALLY studying?' and 'do you want to live in the UK?' . When dealing with the latter I always say I don't know but I am pretty sure I don't want to live where I'm from (London south) because I've lived there most my life and want something new. But when living in Exeter I was genuinely sad to leave which is not surprising as apart from the awful rainy weather (Açores should be a piece of cake) Exeter is an amazing city. With its great size being not to be big/small but having all your city needs, countryside seen from most places and having old cider-filled-devonian-charm. Probably though, the most influential factor in my Exeter love would be the people I met there, the freedom and the fun times and stories which can no doubt be repeated in any a city. (except maybe for the freedom part in Pyongyang.
And the thing is, by being fortunate as I am to live in these cities for around 6 months on my masters, I can, just like Exeter, value up the positives and negatives. Seville for example constantly has me going "I love this, why don't we have this in the UK" and contradictorily "I miss___ in the UK".
So my question probing friends and family, let me reach the end of my 2 year masters where by then I will have lived in 6 places in my life and I can give you more of an informed answer. That's all for now. Wish me luck packing my suitcase tonight which is going to be some task due to the clothes and stuff I have accumulated here. Ciao!
I'm not slating London off btw, I love aspects of the city and will ALWAYS come back for friends, family and theme parks.
